Rules of the Game: The player making a throw-in may not touch the ball again until it has touched another player.
The mascot for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy was a green, white and red stick figure with a soccer ball head named Ciao.
Attendance for the 1950 World Cup Final at Maracana Stadium in Brazil was an amazing 199,500!
American Bert Patenaude scored the first hat trick in World Cup history in a 3-0 victory over Paraguay in 1930.
The Houston Dynamo edged the New England Revolution in the MLS Cup in both 2006 and 2007.